The Tennessee Senate on Monday confirmed Gov. Bill Lee's appointment of Chris Devaney of Lookout Mountain, a Republican political consultant and Lee's 2018 campaign manager, to serve on the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Tennessee government's founders in 1796 didn't see much of a place for "ministers of the Gospel" and "priests" when it came to their serving in the state's General Assembly, even inserting a provision in the first Tennessee Constitution specifically banning them from doing so.
Confusion ensues over how the law would apply to current versus newly elected legislators, among other issues
Tennessee lawmakers are moving to confirm the nomination of activist Laurie Cardoza-Moore, who made national news by opposing a Middle Tennessee mosque project, to the Tennessee Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission.
A Tennessee resolution that would designate the Bible as the official state book cleared the House on Monday night as the sponsor and another member who opposed the measure - both preachers - squared off quoting from the book to make their arguments for and against.
A bill allowing Tennesseans to publicly carry a handgun without a state-issued license and with no required firearms training or criminal background checks won final approval in the House Monday night following spirited debate.
When Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee got his flu shot in November, the state's Republican chief executive promoted the event to the public by tweeting a photo of state Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey delivering the shot in his arm while he was in his Capitol office.
Changes are in the works for Tennessee's temporary assistance program for working-poor and unemployed families after embarrassing revelations that state government was sitting atop a $732 million-plus pile of federal block-grant cash.
Businessman once cited for hunting with gun during bow season is also nominated by Gov. Bill Lee
Toppled last summer by protesters from its prominent perch before the Tennessee state Capitol, the statue of late 19th and early 20th Century newspaper editor, U.S. senator, alcohol prohibitionist and segregationist Edward Ward Carmack appears unlikely to return to its pedestal.
